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The ARMOR is GONE! But the World that once gave it meaning remains.
(The Hall after the Armor Left)
Inspired by THE MET'S Japanese Armor (DŌ-maru), ca. 1550. This project imagines the World that surrounded the Armor.
Generations after the Armor disappeared, the mysterious hidden hall where it once belonged remains and no-one was allowed in.
Beyond the hall is an ancient complex, carved into natural landscape & guarded by a Weathered Samurai figure and farther below, a small settlement continues its daily life unaware that its all-powerful Protector is Gone!
_Its world remains, unaware of its absence_
Here is my 2nd entry @FLORA
The original piece that inspired this project: Japanese Armor (Dō-maru), ca. 1550, from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
I used the armor as the starting point and built the world around it in FLORA,.. from the hall where it once belonged, to the mountain complex, to the...
Adding the original Met reference for completeness:
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